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the whole "lipstick on a pig" thing makes no sense because the second we gave a pig access to makeup she became god's cuntiest soldier

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The genius of Jason’s teaching task is that the narrative and the material effect are completely at odds.

Narratively, he’s teaching Alex to be a dick to the crew of Taskmaster. Metanarratively, he’s torturing Alex by making him pretend to be mean to the crew of Taskmaster.

But materially? He’s giving the crew a chance to shine and be visible on camera. These three women now get speaking role credits. They get an episode that they can show to family and friends. They may get some recognition next time they go out for a role or job. Jason is allowing them to move from less-than-anonymous background workers to part of the show.

This is a very common thing for American panel/late night shows to do. I know for a fact that Seth Meyers shows off his writers constantly, and I believe that Colbert and the Jimmys do as well? Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight also frequently features her writers. On the online side, Dropout dedicates entire shows to their Art Departments and frequently features everyone from producers to PAs. Some crew members at Mythical, 2nd Try, and Smosh are on camera more than some of their talent.

Honestly, if Jason brings something lasting to the Taskmaster format, I would love if it were this. Give the crew members that want them some lines, some screentime, and some public acknowledgement. Make them a visible part of the team. I LOVE to see it.

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happy may 4th

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just remembered shows used to have 20-25 eps per season

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s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936

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thinking two characters have had sex does not equal shipping at all… i dont have to like it i just know it happened

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i think i'm in love with her

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PLEASE THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY

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do u ever get emotional about the fact that tchaikovsky, a gay man, wrote his Romeo and Juliet overture for his brother and his brother’s gay lover bc I sure as hell do

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Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

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“is armand a coward?” “is he insane?” “is he smart or stupid?” “is he honest?” IS HE BORING THO? the only question is he boring?????

I know you’re being silly, but I have actually written about this before. Multiple times, actually. But my organizational system is so bad I have no idea where any of those posts are. It’ll be in the tag somewhere if you want to look. I’ll sum it up here, though.

Armand both is and isn’t boring. In a vacuum, he’s an interesting person. He’s 500 years old and he’s got no hobbies to speak of besides gardening and torture. He’s got a penchant for v-necks. He led a cult and burnt people alive and then he led another cult and had them murder people on stage every night for a hundred years. He used to wander museums at night. He has a large collection of sunglasses. He’s been following a painting of him paid for with his body for 500 years but he never took it home or destroyed it. He’s surprisingly adept at real estate for someone who lived an ascetic lifestyle for 200 years. He’s got neat handwriting. He doesn’t have a real accent. He’s numbered his memories chronologically. So all that’s interesting. Even if he were actually a soft, beige pillow, he’d still be interesting by virtue of having lived five centuries. But Louis finds him boring because Armand’s always trying to please him. Armand has an idea of what Louis wants (“not Lestat”), so everything he does is designed to not be Lestat, and to fulfill the submissive role in their D/S relationship. By being who he thinks Louis wants him to be, he makes himself boring. He’s not actually boring, but Louis only ever gets to see the boring version of him, because it’s all he’ll ever show Louis. He’s always modulating his behavior to meet the expectations of the people he wants approval from, which makes him boring to that person. It’s boring if someone only ever does what you want and what you say. “You can pick what we have for dinner, I don’t mind” every night for 77 years. It’s boring!

Armand’s not boring. He’s just backed himself into a corner that makes everyone he wants approval or attention from see him as boring. It’s a silly problem to have. Louis would probably be more attracted to him if he showed the side of himself he shows to Lestat. But Armand’s so devoted to pretending to be a civilized, well-adjusted person who isn’t violent and isn’t unstable and isn’t selfish and isn’t anything like Lestat, and isn’t anything besides stable and safe and patient and kind and loving, that he’s filed off his own edge. You can see him compartmentalize it. He hunts alone. He leaves the penthouse. That’s something he does for himself. The only time he allows himself to be whoever he really is without the expectation of someone else, and it’s out of sight for both the viewer and Louis. He declaws himself for the sake of others, and he’s naturally hurt when people say things like, “Where are your claws? Why don’t you have claws? You’re boring!” It’s a mean thing to say to someone who spends all their time and energy attempting to be interesting to you, even if their method is self-defeating and stupid. I think Armand might think of himself as boring, though. But his metric for what’s normal and abnormal is so far removed from any conceivable standard of normalcy it’s not really a valid opinion to hold. He’s silly, okay?

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this time he died. because of reasons

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tf you doin in that dungeon bro the lakers need you 😭😭😭